Green business habitat in the NC mountains
In this issue of Natural Products Insider, Bent Creek Institute President, Greg Cumberford, has an intriguing article on how we can replace economically motivated adulteration of natural products with economically motivated integrity. To read…
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James E. Hansen, who directs the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and is a leading climate scientist, has a must-read op-ed in the…
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A new study from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) states that the US has the technology and the solar capacity to power every home across the states with energy from the sun! Researchers found that the US has the ability to make and deploy systems able to generate as much as 200,000 GW of energy – or about 400,000 TWh of energy annually. To give that some perspective, 1 GW is what a standard nuclear…
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Duke Energy and Progress Energy have agreed to disclose additional information about their ongoing efforts to comply with the swine/poultry waste-to-energy obligations included in the Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard (REPS) law. The utilities filed a settlement agreement on Tuesday, July 31 with the North Carolina Utilities Commission.
Earlier this summer, North Carolina’s electric suppliers — Duke, Progress, Dominion and the municipal and cooperative power…
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The North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association (NCSEA) has entered into an agreement with Duke Energy and Progress Energy to try to design an on-bill financing program by year’s end that will work for the utilities, their customers and renewable energy and energy efficiency developers
Energy efficiency improvements and rooftop solar are often too costly for customers, even after taking utility incentives into account. Duke, Progress and NCSEA will explore…
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Wind power will be the second biggest contributor to global renewable electricity generation by 2017, according to a ground-breaking report by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Despite economic uncertainties in many countries, global power generation from renewable sources including wind will increase by more than 40% to almost 6,400 terawatt hours (TWh) — roughly the equivalent of one-and-a-half times current electricity production in the U.S., predicts the…
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